THE HAMILTON MARKET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19458, 14 October 1926, Page 9

THE HAMILTON MARKET.

EASIER PRICES FOR BEEF. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, reports:—Beef was panned in large numbers and as the sale progressed prices were easier. There, was a good demand for store cattla. Braziers operating freely. Fat sheep improved considerably in value. Prime fit cows made £9 12s to £lO 45,; medium quality, £6 13s' to £8; store cows, £3 8s to £ 4 2s 6d; springing heifers, £6 10s to £7 10a: fat wethers in wool. £1 13s: shorn. £1 6s: fat ewes in wool, £1 6s to £1 7s; fat lambs. £1 3s to £1 ss: tm. owes and Romney lambs. £1 6s 9d. Pigs were penned in average numbers, prices for fats being about tho same as last week, stores and weaners beinc a little better. Heavy baconers made £-1 9s to £4 19s; medium, £3 19s to £4 ss; light baconers and heavy porkers, £2 19s to £3 14s; porkers* £2 13s to £2 16s; good stores, £2 4s to £2 lis; others. £1 17s to £2; slips, £1 7b to £1 14s; woaners, 16s to £1 4s. Tho Farmers' Co-operativo Auctioneering Company reports.—Thero was a pood yarding of fat bullocks, cows and heifers, a fair yarding of sheep and a big entry of fat and store pigs. Very few store cattle were yarded. Beef was a little easier, prime ox being equal to 85s per 1001b. and cow and heifer 31s to 33a. prices for the latter class being '2os to 30s a head lower than last week. Sheep were firm at last week's rates and competition for fat and store pigs was keen. Prims heavy bullocks made £ls; prime bullocks. £l3 5s to £l3 15s; light. £9 10s to £lO 12s Cd: prime heavy cows and heifers. £lO 14s. to £11: prime cowb, £9 Cs to £9 14s; light. £7 15s to £8 10s; unfinished cows, £5 10s to £6 ss; prime shorn fat ewes. 20s 3d to 20s 6d; extra prime heavy woolly ewes, 33a 6d; prime fat woolly hoggets. 25s tp 275; twoyear empty heifers in poor condition. £3 4s; extra choice Jersey cross yearling heifers, £5 17s; store cows. £3 17s 6d to £4 10s: dairy cows, £8 to £9; prime baconers, heavy, £4 10s to £4 16s; prima baconers, £4 2s to £4 8s; light baconers. £3 10s to £3 17b heavy porkers. £3 to £3 9s: light. £2 14s to £2 17s;; heavy porkers, £3 to £3 9a: light. £2 14s to £2 17s; slips. 355. to 39a; weaners. best, 30s to 345; good, 24s to 28s; small. 13s to 15a. (300 fats and stores yarded.) Dalgety and Company, Limited, report.— There was a large yarding of beef, including a few pens of choice Quality bullocks. The demand for bullock beef was eood and best quality made equal to 40s per 1001b. The quality of the cows and hensrs yarded was hardly equal to late markets, and consequently the demand was not £0 keen. Best light bullocks made £l4 2s 6d to £ls; medium quality bullocks. £ll 5s to £l3 2s 6d: best young cows, and heifers made £9 to £ll 10s; ordinary quality. £7 to £9 ss; inferior. £6 to £G 15s; runners, £i 5s to £4; inferior., 80s to 4t>s. Store cattle were yarded in fair numbera. We yarded a line of 120 eood store cows which met with a ready sale. Bo6t good-framed cows mad® np to £5 17s: ordinary. £4 15s to £5 9s: inferior. £3 15s; low-conditioned small cows, 30s to 40 . emptv maiden Jersey heifers. £4 8s: yearling heifers, 35s to 455: dairy cows, i 4 to £B. only inferior quality yarded. inere was a small yarding of sheep. p »™ e shorn wethers made to 255; shorn fat . 20s to 21s 6d: woolly light ewcs. 20s 3d. lieht fat hoggets. 21s Gd; aged_ ewes wth 100 per cent. at foot 26s 9d. Extra prime baconers mado £4 12s to heavy baconers, £4 to £4 10s: unfinished. £<t 5s to £3 18s: heavy poTkers. £3 to £3 Js: eood. £2 14s to £3: lwht and unfinished. £2 6s to £2 12s. Store pigs were in keen demand at the "rS tl the sale, but slackened off towttld . finish. Good stores made £2 4s to ±2 14b: slips, £1 8s to £1 12s: > 3anew, 18s to 30s.

OTHER COUNTRY SAIXS. Alfrod Buckland and Sons, Ltd., reportv— ■ During the week we held sales at iaroto. Wellsford, Pukekohe Westf eld. Tuakail Turua and Helensville, two clearing sale's .and our a nnual bull sale at Pukekoha. There were about 400 bulls offered at 1 ussekohe and with few exceptions all owners, but values were lower than those ruling at the corresponding sale last year Best two-year-old pedigree J«W made fliS 18q to 36gns. t for a bull, the propeity of Mr T. D. Reid. Keid Park. Glenbiook: other two-year-olds, £9 9s to £ls 15s, ss gull 1 ® by S Mr. MilledTuakau; other yearlings, £7 7s to £ls 15s; grade. yearlings and two-year-old Jer9e?B. £5 5s to £l2 12s; best yearlme* arid ere© Shorthorns, £8 8s to irrad© ihorthoms. £7 7 B to £l2 12s; small yeanlings. £3 3s to £5 ss; Ayrshire bulls, £3 3s to £8 Bs. yearling Friesians. £5 5s to -9 as. aged and heavy bulls. £3 3s to £7 78-. and store cattle are selling at late values and beef is slightly firmer. Best dairy cows and heifers made £9 to £ls 10s;extra, to £io. se coud grade cows. £5 5s to ±a ius, aged and inferior. £2 10s to £5; grown steers in forward condition. £8 10s to £9 12s; 6d, four-year-old steers, £t> 10s to £8 ss, three-year-olds. £5 6b to £6 10a; 18-month to two-year-olds, £3 15s to £4 15b: empty young cows. £3 10s to £4 15s; store cows. ;£1 10s to £2 15s; well-bred yearling to 18-montns-nM dairv heifers, £S 10s to £5 10s; calves, 15s to £1 10s; light fat steers. £lO to £l2 7s 6d; fat cows and heifers, £5 10s to £l2 17s 6<3; rough fat cows and boners. £2 10s to The s New Zealand ' Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, reports;-We held sales during the past week at Westfield, Papakura and Pukekohe,. and one clearing Bale. All classes of dairy cattle sold at late quotations. Dairy cows' and heifers, best made £lO to £l4 103, others £7 to £9 15s; aged cows and inferior heifers, £3 to £6 10s. Store cattle in forward condition sold readily and there is an improvement in the demand for all other classes of store cattle. At Pukekohe we reports decidedly better sale, practically everything penned changing hands with values better for backward-condition steers. Yearling to 18-monthß steers made £3 to £4 7s 6 _d; 2 to 24-year steers, £4 10s to £o 12s 6d; 3 to 31-year steers, £5 15s to £7 2s 6d; 4to 4i-year steers. £7 5s to £1 17s 6d; grown steers in forward condition, £8 to £9 ss; store cows, best, £4 to £ 5 ss, others £2 to £3 15s; yearling to 18-months heifers, best £3 to £4 103, others £1 5s to £2 15s. At Papakura on Friday we had our special bull sale, when more than the advertised numbers came forward. Although most were sold values are somewhat easier than last year's sale. We quoteßegistered pedigree Jersey bulls, yearlings 7gns to 20gns. 2yrs.. lOgns to 25gns; registered pedigree S.H. bulls, yearlings Sens to lOgns. 2yrs 9gns to 20gns; grado bulls, yearling Jersey bulls, 3sns to 7gns; 2yrs., sgns to Sens; S.H. bulls, yearlings. «gns to Sgns, 2yrs., 7gns to llgns; older bulls, 2gns to sgns; Friesian bulls and Ayrshire bulls, demand dull with values low, 2gns to sgns; Hereford bulls, sgns to 7gns.

RATES AT ADDINGTON. SHARP RISE FOR SHEEP. [by telegraph. —mess association. ] CHKISTCHURCH. Wednesday. Entries in the sheep Bection at the Addington market to-day were email and a sharp rise in values was created, particularly for fat sheep and fat lambs. A heavy entry of beef met with lower prices. Store Sheep.--There was a vory small entry and a particularly* keen sale for ewe hotels. Rates wore firmer for ewes and lambs, due to the good rainfall of the past week. Good aged ewes and lainba made 15s to IGa (id; fair ewes and lambs, J.3s to 14s lid; iuferior aged ewes and lambs, 11a 6d to L2a Gd; Corriedalo ewe hoggeta, 38a Id- three-Quartorbred wether hoggets, 23s Gd to '24s Ud; 2 and 4-toothed crossbred wethers, 265. Spring Lambs.—The entry of 190 was too small for butchers' requirements and a jump of 3s to 5s a head took place. Most of the lamb was over Is a lb. Prices ranged from 24s to 36s a head. Fat Sheep.—The small yardinp was mostly of excellent quality and met with increased rates, the average rise being from 4a to 5a a head. Extra prime wethers made 44s to 46s XOd; prime wethers, 89a to 43a; medium wethers, 36s to 38s 6d; light wethors, 33s to 35s 6d; extra prime ewes to 39s lOd; prime ewes, 32b 6d to 30s: medium ewes, 29a Cd to 32s j light ewea, 24s (id to 295; prime shorn wothers, 31s to 35a lOd; medium shorn - wethers, 25s Cd to 295.

Fat Cattle.—Thero waa a large entry of 550 head, 200 moro than last week. The bulk were from North Cahtarbury and Banks Peninsula, but a number of truck lota of cows and heifers came from South Otngo and Southland. Tho sale at the commencement lost the 40s Id adv&nce recorded laßl week, but recovered by 20a par bond over most of the »alo. Beat beef made to 41h per 1001b.; good prime, 87s to 40a: heavy, 33s to 3Ga Id; medium quality, 32a Gd to 85s Id; and inferior down to 27s 6d; extra heavy bullocks, £l9 to £2O 17s Gd; prime heavy steers, £IG to £18; prime medium weight steers, £l4 10s to £l6 6s; medium quality steers, £ll ,10s to £l4; i light steers, £9 12s Gd to £11; extra prime heifers. £l4 to £IG 12s Gd; prime heifors, £ll Ba to £l3 10s; ordinary heifers, £9, to £11; light heifers. £7 to £8 15s; extra prime cows to £l4 17s Gd; prime cowb, £lO 5s to £l2 15s; ordinary cows, £7 5s to £10; light cows. £5 17s 6(5, to £7. Voulers.—The yarding was of poor quality and a lot of good runners made to £8; best calves, £4 10a to £6. Pat Pigs.—Thero was a medium entry and an easier sale for baconers. Porkers were about the name as last week. Choppers triado £■( to £7 10s; baconerfl, £3 17a Cd to '£4 10?.; heavy baconers, £5 to £5 30a; extra hoavv baconers to £6 (average price per lb.. 7£d to 8d); porkers, GOs to fi7s Gd; heavy porkers. £3 3s to £3 12s (averago price per lb., 85d to 9}d). ■ Store Pisß.—A good entry met with keen sale Weanera made 27b to 38s; stores, 3Gs to 50s; large stores to 62a; sows in pig, £7 10a.